For the 9th consecutive year, Tom Cunningham & the Bruce Brunch is helping out the Foodbank of Monmouth & Ocean County for the holidays.

This Sunday (11/23) during the Bruce Brunch between 9a-11a, you can call the Foodbank DIRECTLY at 732-643-5891 and request a Springsteen song for a $25 (minimum) donation to the Foodbank. (Requests will be taken on a first come/first serve basis)

When Bruce Springsteen started recording a batch of new songs to a four-track tape machine in his New Jersey bedroom in January 1982, he wasn’t planning to release an album. The acoustic demos were to be used as guidelines for the E Street Band, who would bring their epic heft to the two dozen or so songs Springsteen had recently written. But something happened along the way to Springsteen’s sixth album: The more he listened to the bare, stark songs on the cassette he carried around, the more he thought this was how they were supposed to sound.

It didn't sell particularly well when it first came out, but it has since become a favorite among his fans. On Sept. 11, 1973, Bruce Springsteen released his second album, 'The Wild, the Innocent and the E Street Shuffle.'

Before he was signed as a solo act, Bruce Springsteen gained a reputation as the "Fastest Guitar in Asbury Park" in a series of bands on the Jersey Shore. One of them, Earth, gave its first performance on Aug. 16, 1968, at the Off Broad Street Coffee House in Red Bank, N.J.

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